Sentences with phrase «television screenwriter»

I have worked as a television screenwriter for most of my adult life, and currently I'm working as a video game writer.

John Wells is an award winning television screenwriter and producer with mega shows like «ER» and «The West Wing» to his name.

Not exact matches

Earlier this month, for example, the council partnered with the Disney / ABC Television Group to host a screenwriters» workshop.

Matt Lucas is a comedian, actor and screenwriter, best known for his work in the television show Little Britain with David Walliams.

Prolific producer, director, and screenwriter Shonda Rhimes owns our televisions on Thursday nights — and she's influencing our baby name choices, too.

SCREENWRITER: You might also say that scientists love acting like starlets on television news and documentaries, blogging, and self - promoting as much as anyone in movies.

I'm a college student and aspiring screenwriter for fantasy and television comedy.

Scotland About Blog This is the Official Website of Joanne Rowling, who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, film and television producer, screenwriter and philanthropist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.

Biography: Sarah is a Canadian actress, singer, film director and screenwriter, better known for her role as Sarah Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea.

Sarah is a Canadian actress, singer, film director and screenwriter, better known for her role as Sarah Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea.

A host of top - gun screenwriters (Steven Zaillian, Robert Towne, David Koepp) tinkered with the script about a botched mission and the crosses and double - crosses that ensue, but the result isn't satisfactory; vague memories of better story lines on the television program come to mind.

Born in 1937 in West Cliff - on - Sea, England, screenwriter - turned - director Dick Clement cut his teeth on the small screen in his mid - to late twenties, as a BBC television writer and director, including such now - classic programs as the sitcom The Likely Lads (1964), the Dudley Moore and Peter Cook series Not Only... But Also (1965), and the brief Steptoe and Son successor Mr. Aitch (1967), starring Harry H. Corbett.Clement segued into big - screen comedy in 1966, co-scripting (with Ian La Frenais) the Michael Winner - directed picture The Jokers.

Amazon Studios has given a four - episode order to the untitled miniseries, created for television by Schindler's List writer Zaillian and adapted from a screenplay by the late Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, reports variety.com.

His lauded material has been written for the screen by three time Oscar - nominated screenwriter John Logan, whose incredible filmography includes: «Gladiator,» «The Aviator,» «Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,» «Rango,» «Hugo,» «Skyfall» and the upcoming James Bond sequel «Spectre,» (and he has also recently dabbled in television, writing the Showtime series «Penny Dreadful «-RRB-.

«Television is just able to take more risks than film,» Nicole Perlman, screenwriter for «Captain Marvel,» tells TheWrap

A screenwriter and filmmaker, Joe won a small degree of national attention when his first cinematic offering, a spoof of The Wizard of Oz and The Blair Witch Project entitled The Wicked Witch Project, was featured on television and in newspapers from coast to coast.

Screenwriter Diablo Cody has the hot hand in television development these days, with Variety reporting that ABC has nabbed Cody's latest television project, an American adaptation of the British family comedy Raised By Wolves.

Szifron is an Argentine film and television director and screenwriter who was set to make his American debut with the big budget Six Billion Dollar Man starring Mark Wahlberg.

Roberto Gaston Orci, Mexican - American film and television writer and producer, Harrison Ford, American film actor and producer, and Gavin Hood, South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and actor (L - R), hold a news conference on the Russian premiere of Ender's Game film.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) have announced that the latest in their prestigious series of lectures by the world's leading screenwriters will feature writer - directors Kenneth Lonergan, Maren Ade, Park Chan - wook, and Phil Lord and Chris Miller this October.

Now comes A Kind of Murder, from first - time screenwriter Susan Boyd and veteran television director Andy Goddard (Downton Abbey), whose debut feature film, Set Fire to the Stars, came out in 2014.

Canadian playwright and television writer (Slings and Arrows, Mozart in the Jungle), the first - time screenwriter creates a heartwarming (family - friendly) historical drama which likely will get viewers in the holiday spirit.

With all of this in mind, perhaps it won't surprise you to find out that the creators of this entry, director Alan Myerson (Private Lessons) and screenwriter Stephen Curwick (who wrote for «Growing Pains» and «Family Ties»), spent their careers doing work almost exclusively for television.

Mr. Stan had spent the previous couple of months obsessively researching Mr. Gillooly, finding on YouTube a television interview that Mr. Gillooly had given several years ago, and also listening to the audiotape of a three - hour interview Mr. Gillooly had given to Steven Rogers, the film's screenwriter.

MIDSECTION: SCREENWRITERS Some of the most talented writers for film and television — Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Howard Koch, George Axelrod, Robert Benton and David and Leslie Newman, Richard Levinson and William Link, and Paul Schrader showed up at The Museum of Modern Art last fall to talk about their funny and frustrating adventures in Hollywood.

Academy Award winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, writer of such films as the excellent Steve Jobs, The Social Network, Moneyball, and the acclaimed television series The West Wing tries his hand for the first time at directing a script he adapted titled Molly's Game.

Director Roger Michell and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi previously collaborated to turn Kureishi's novel «The Buddha of Suburbia» into a successful serial for British television, which is exactly where «The Mother» also belongs, as periodic breaks for advertisements might well serve to cover up its somewhat plodding pace and occasionally aimless repetitions.

Director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Olympus Has Fallen) and screenwriter Richard Wenk (The Expendables 2) have based their film on the television series of the same name that ran from 1985 - 1989.

Gavin Hood, South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and actor, Harrison Ford, American film actor and producer, and Roberto Gaston Orci, Mexican - American film and television writer and producer (L - R), pictured during a photocall at Ritz - Carlton Hotel in Moscow.

The 2018 WGA West honorees included screenwriter James L. Brooks, receiving the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement; writer - producer Alison Cross, receiving the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement; screenwriter and activist Dustin Lance Black, receiving the Valentine Davies Award; and «The Post» screenwriters Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, receiving the Paul Selvin Award.

Longtime television director Mark Mylod (Ali G Indahouse) and first - time screenwriter Collin Friesen get the look and feel right, and certainly have a capable cast, but the laughs just aren't there, pure and simple.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and BFI (British Film Institute) have recently been celebrating screenwriters contribution to a film's vision...

In other news, Babak Anvari is teaming with screenwriter Mary Laws (The Neon Demon, Preacher) on an elevated horror anthology for Annapurna Television and Two & Two Pictures, and that project has multiple bidders.

Brian Helgeland will receive AFF's Distinguished Screenwriter honor at the Awards Luncheon, joining Outstanding Television Writer, Norman Lear.

Austin Film Festival & Screenwriters Conference (AFF), the premier film festival recognizing the writers» contributions to film, television, and new media, announced today...

So, let a listing of some of the major characters suffice to bring an anticipatory smile to your face: Harry Shearer as Victor Allan Miller, best - known for playing a frankfurter in television commercials; Eugene Levy as Morley Orfkin, Miller's worthless agent; John Michael Higgins as Corey Taft, clueless publicist; Jennifer Coolidge as Whitney Taylor Brown, superfluous producer / financier; Ed Begley Jr. as Sandy Lane, stylist to the semi-stars; Parker Posey and Christopher Monyihan as romantically entangled co-stars; Bob Balaban and Michael McKean as the screenwriters; Jane Lynch and Fred Willard as hosts of an «Entertainment Tonight» - like TV show; Michael Hitchcock and Don Lake as TV film critics; Ricky Gervais and Guest himself as the director of «Home for Purim.»

Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter of the hot new television series «The Newsroom», has insisted that his character for actor Jeff Daniels is not based on...

The Screenwriters Conference (October 29 - November 1) will feature over 150 panels and speakers, with conversations that explore the art, craft, and business of writing for film, television, and new media.

Grade: C + Director: Guy Ritchie Screenwriter: Guy Ritchie, Lionel Wigram, story by Jeff Kleeman, David Campbell Wilson, Guy Ritchie, Lionel Wigram based on the television series «The Man from U.N.C.L.E.» Cast: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander Screened at: Warner Bros., NYC, 8/5/15 Opens: August 14, 2015

Directed by Guillermo Del Toro is set to take a back seat to become executive producer, with television director and screenwriter Steven S DeKnight set to make his movie directorial debut with «Pacific Rim 2».

Based on This American Life's segment entitled «Heretics» that focused on Pearson and the controversial decision to tell his flock that Hell doesn't exist, director Joshua Marston (who made an impressive first film in 2004 with Maria Full of Grace but has largely worked in television since) and screenwriter Marcus Hinchey struggle to give the compelling true story of Pearson some much - needed dramatic mojo.

Screenwriter Jane Anderson arrives at the Television Academy Celebrates the 67th Emmy Award Nominees for Outstanding Writing at Montage Beverly Hills on September 16, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California.

New York Women in Film & and Television and IRIS, a collective of women filmmakers, today announced the selected screenwriters and named the eight mentors who will work with them (it's a very impressive list).

The screenwriters background in short films and television is on full display as the script just jumps from one idea to the next, following the deterioration of the main character.

She is co-editor of the books On Story - Screenwriters and Their Craft (2013), On Story - Screenwriters and Filmmakers on Their Iconic Films (2016), and the forthcoming On Story — The Golden Ages of Television (2018), all from University of Texas Press.

Wynne is a narrative designer for video games, screenwriter, television writer, and novelist.

He then trained as a screenwriter at the German Film and Television Academy and after many years writing screenplays and plays, Robert Lohr decided to try his hand at a novel.

In the 1980s he turned to television and editing, and was a screenwriter for feature films and television and was the producer of the TV series Beauty and the Beast as well as a story editor for The Twilight Zone.

Kate Noble is a bestselling author of Regency romances, but she is also a screenwriter, having written for television shows like «Law and Order: Criminal Intent,» «The Librarians» and the Emmy Award - winning web series «The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.»

Your professional screenwriter will provide a thorough 8 - to 10 - page Treatment detailing how best to adapt your book's manuscript into a film and / or television screenplay.